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Re: lynx in ip-up: no terminal



Hi!

T.Pospisek's MailLists schrieb am Mittwoch, dem 24. Mai 2000:

> On Wed, 24 May 2000, Justin Penney wrote:
> 
> > lynx is nearly always installed and used by default in many scripts. (e.g.
> > dhs.org update scripts etc.)
> 
> It's just that lynx is a viewer. wget is a page fetch-program and for that
> reason "might" be better adapted for the task.

Of course wget can do it (after all, it's its task:) but as Justin
wrote lynx is installed almost everywhere and IMHO there is no reason
for it to request a terminal for a -dump.

I think I'll use wget and file a bug report against lynx.


					yours,
					peter

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